ELSA-D

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10-day predictions

NORAD ID: 47944

Int'l Code: 2021-022N

Perigee: 488.4 km

Apogee: 504.4 km

Inclination: 97.5 °

Period: 94.4 minutes

Semi major axis: 6867 km

RCS: Unknown

Launch date: March 22, 2021
Source: Japan (JPN)
Launch site: TYURATAM MISSILE AND SPACE COMPLEX (TTMTR)

ELSA-D is the world’s first commercial orbital debris removal mission to operate in LEO (Low Earth Orbit). The mission consists of two spacecraft, a Servicer (~180 kg) and a Client (~20 kg), and will demonstrate dynamically complex capture activities necessary to remove defunct objects from orbit.

1 47944U 21022N   24139.45679142  .00029649  00000-0  11679-2 0  9998
2 47944  97.4654  39.4628 0011650 222.6030 137.4305 15.25494299174178

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC